Robo-AO is the first autonomous laser adaptive optics system and science
instrument operating on sky. The system robotically executes large scale surveys, monitors long-term
astrophysical dynamics and characterizes newly discovered transients, all at the visible diffraction limit.

The Robo-AO project, led by Principal Investigator Christoph Baranec,
with Software Lead Reed Riddle, Project Scientist Nicholas Law, Co-Investigator A. N. Ramaprakash,
and students and collaborators,
is a collaboration between Caltech Optical Observatories and the Inter-University Centre
for Astronomy and Astrophysics. It is partially funded by the National Science Foundation under grants AST-0906060, AST-0960343 and AST-1207891, the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-11-1-0903, by the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, by a gift from Samuel Oschin and by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

The team moved Robo-AO to the 2.1-m telescope at Kitt Peak in Nov. 2015. Robo-AO KP is a partnership between the California Institute of Technology, the University of Hawai`i, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the National Central University, Taiwan. Robo-AO KP is supported by a grant from Sudha Murty, Narayan Murthy, and Rohan Murty, a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and by the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation.

(c) 2009-2017 Robo-AO Collaboration.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, Caltech, IUCAA, the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation, Samuel Oschin, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, Sudha Murty, Narayan Murthy, Rohan Murty, or the John Templeton Foundation.